Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-06-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL


The m nutes of the last Presbyterian
General Assembly show that lis Of
their churches last year received addi-
tons of 80 and over each.
Two or three clergymen in Brook
lyn introduced the practice of giving
brief talks to the children be ore becin.
ming the morning sermon. -BrooElun
Union.
Rome papers report that the Pope
intends to establish great university in
the Lateran Palace. The head of the
Universities Leonina is to be the Jesuit
Cardinal Mazzella.
The Chinaman in America is being
more and more cared for. According
to the New York Tribune twenty-five
Chinese missions have been established
in New York and Brooklyn since 1878,
and are in tlourishing cond ton. What
is more, large proportion of the con-
vert stick"
In an article published in the Nou-
velle Revue, French traveller declares
that there is scarcely village in Syria
without Protestant church; more than
one may be found even in the gorges of
Mount Hermon. At Beyrout there is
German hosp tai and American univer-
sity, where the most practical sciences
are taught, especially that of medicine.
"A Century ofProtestant Missions"
is the title of book published in Eng
land by the Rev. James Johnston. 1t
makes the startling estimate that while
5000, 900 converts have been added to
the churches, there are now 200, 600, 900
more heather in the world than there
were when Protestant missions began a
hundred years ago.-M. y. Witness.
The Illustrated Christian Weekly fol-
lows up the remarks of President Eliot,
of Harvard, in denunciation of the ten
dency to extravaganza that seems to be
increasing among ,Ollegians with some
appropriate remarks of his own. Owing
to this extravaganza, the scale OF ex-
penditure is raised to all, and it will
cost the frugal student of to-day from
80 to 100 per cent. more than it did their
equally frugal fathers to take q college
course in similar comfort.
in Brazil are found the best schools
in South mer ca. They are divided
in o three grades the primary, the
secondary, and the technical schools.
] he first two correspond to the various
grades of our public schools. There is
but one institution in the country cor
respond NO to our college, namely
college Don Pedro H." in Rio dc
Janeiro. The lower schools are free,
and the law even demands compulsory
attendance.
The Bishop of Rochester does no
approve of the popular clamor for brle
sermons. do not" he advises h
ecclesiastical subordnates, ''readl..
give in to what is often only world,
cry fors TT sermons. You need
great deal more experience than yot
e can claim now for making a fifteel
g minutes sermon that shall be reall
t us full. Either so much will be com
4 pressed into it that it will become load
n ed and obscure. or what is perhap
4 more likely, so little will into it ths
T., it will be imposs bic to endure It.
q The figures laid before the Methc
: dist conference show the steady growt
: of the Methodist Church in Canada
J The membership is placed at l97. Az
There are l,6l0 m nsters and proba
to TONERS. The church has property
W the value of $3.50 043. The numb'
Re of Sunday-schools is 2,675, with an a
Id tendance OF 1871 1S5. Sabbath-scho
a papers have a circhlat Oh of 229, 63
a The work of temperance, according
:, the rep 1T of the statistics comm tie
~ has been carried on energetically, as
" witnessed by the fact that 46.2S0 Su
n day-school scholars have taken the Tot
ed abstinence pledge.